Golden Peak College of Professional Educations: DIT (Diploma of Information and Technology)
Golden Peak College of Professional Educations: DIT (Diploma of Information and Technology)
Professional Educations
DIT(Diploma of Information and Technology)
Name : Muhammad Umair Ali
Answer: The first window appear on the screen when system starts, is known as desktop. Our desktop contain :
1. Background
2. Wallpaper
3. Icons
4. Taskbar
5. Notification area
What is meant by pop-up and drop-down ?
Answer : The menu bar open by right click from bottom to top is known as pop-up menu bar.
The menu bar open by right click from top to bottom is known as drop-down menu bar.
Answer :
Answer : The panel used to control or change the settings of computer’s hardware and software devices.
Importance: With the help of control panel we can improve the functionality of our computer devices.
Control panel has a great importance because it provide a single platform to handle with all devices at
the same time.
Control panel window: It contain the list of all devices (hardware or software) that are connected with
the computer. Here we can change the setting of each device separately. This window have a view
option. This option is used to change the view of the list of devices.
The name of some devices that exist in control panel are shown in above image.
Here we will discuss the settings of some devices in detail.
Mouse: In control panel the mouse option is used to customize the settings of your mouse. By
clicking the mouse option we actually open the properties of mouse.
The mouse properties window contain five tabs as shown in the image below.
1. Button tab: In this tab we can change button configuration i.e we can replace the
function of left click with the right click. We can also adjust double click speed in this
option.
2. Pointer Tab: In this tab we can change the shape of our pointer. For example we can use
a pen shape pointer in place of arrow.
3. Pointer Option Tab: In this tab we can adjust pointer speed and visibility of pointer.
4. Wheel Tab: Now a day we use laser mouse. This tab is used for old mouses in which
wheel was used in place of laser. In this option we changed the vertical and horizontal
scrolling of the wheel.
5. Hardware Tab: This tab contain the properties of mouse such as:
a) Device name and type
b) Manufacturer name
c) Location i.e on USB input device
d) Status whether the mouse is working properly or not.
Keyboard option: In control panel the keyboard option is used to customize the
setting of our keyboard. By clicking the keyboard option we open the keyboard’s
properties.
The keyboard properties window contain two tabs:
1. Speed tab: In this tab we can adjust the character speed rate and
cursor blink rate as fast or slow.
2. Hardware tab: This tab contain properties of keyboard such as :
a. Device name and type
b. Manufacturer name
c. Location i.e plugged in to keyboard port
d. Status whether the keyboard is working properly or not.
Note: After changing any kind of setting in any device we must have to
click apply button to save the changings otherwise your settings will not
be saved.
Apply button
Display option : In control panel the display option allow us to change all the
settings related to display of screen. The display option contain the following further
option:
a) Change the size of text and other items: In this option we are given
three choices to change the size of text and other items.
i. Smaller- 100% (default)
ii. Medium- 125 %
iii. Larger – 150%
Mostly we use smaller size.
b) Adjust resolution : In this option we can change the appearance of
our display.It contain two tabs:
i. Resolution: Using this tab we adjust the resolution of our
screen. The resolution is in the form:
(No. of pixel along width × No. of pixel along height)
Mostly we use resolution (1024 × 768) .
ii. Orientation : There are two types of orientations:
Landscape
Portrait
Mostly we use landscape orientation.
c) Personalization: This option allow us to change theme, background,
color, sound and screen saver.
Desktop Backgrounds: Using this option we can change the
picture of our background. We can also set this option to
slideshow of different pictures which will appear one by one
on the screen after an equal interval. We can also adjust this
interval by using tab “change picture every”.
Window color: In this option we can change the color of our
window borders, start menu and taskbar. We can also adjust
color intensity.
Sound: In this option we can set the display icons related to
sound such as:
o Playback
o Recorder
o Sound adjust
o Communication sound like sounds of calls.
Screen saver: Screen saver is used to prevent the screen from
damaging by continuous display when no one is working on
the computer. It also save the pover.
We can use the 3D text, moving bubbles and picture as screen
saver. We can adjust the time to start the screen saver like one
minute after some one leave the computer on and no work is
done on the computer.
Microsoft office
An application or software used for documentation and publications and for the modification
of documents is known as Microsoft office.
Microsoft office contain the following programs:
1. Microsoft word
2. Microsoft Excel
3. Microsoft Power point
4. Microsoft Access
5. Microsoft Publisher etc
1)Microsoft Word:
This program is used to make documents like writing applications, letters, news
papers, books etc.
Short cut keys: To save time the manufacturer provided us some short cut keys to
make different action in this program. The keys and their functions are written in the
following table.
Keys Function
Cntrl + s Save
F 12 Save as
Cntrl + p Print
Cntrl + c Copy
Cntrl + x Cut
Cntrl + v Paste
Cntrl + f Find
Alt+cntrl+i Print preview
Cntrl+ h Replace
Cntr+ g Go to
Cntrl + o Open
Cntrl+ n New
Cntrl+w Close active word document
Cntrl+F4 Close active window
Cntrl +z Undo
Cntrl+y Redo
Cntrl+b Bold the text
Cntrl+i `italic the text
Cntrl+u Underline the text
Cntrl+l Left alignment
Cntrl +r Right alignment
Cntrl + e Central alignment
Cntrl+ j Justify
Right arrow key One character right
Left arrow key One character left
Cntrl+ right arrow key One word right
Cntrl +left arrow key One word left
Up arrow key One row up
Down arrow key One row down
Cntrl+ up arrow key One paragraph up
Cntrl + down arrow key One paragraph down
Home key Move curser to the beginning of row
End key Move curser to end of row
Cntrl + home key Move curser to beginning of document
Cntrl +end key Move curser to end of document
Cntrl + page up One page up
Cntrl + page down One page down
Cntrl+f Find in document
Cntrl+h Replace a word with other word
Cntrl + g Go to a word, line, page etc
Title bar: The bar appear at the most top of the MS Word window is known as title bar. This
bar show the name of document.
Office button: office button lie at the right top corner of the ms word window.
It contains the following options:
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Exit etc. The shortcut keys for all these tabs are written
in the above table.